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A photo of a Ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla)
Ovenbird

Ovenbird

Seiurus aurocapilla

The ovenbird (Seiurus aurocapilla) is a small songbird of the New World warbler family (Parulidae). This migratory bird breeds in eastern North America and winters in Central America, many Caribbean islands, Florida and northern Venezuela. Ovenbirds are large wood warblers and may sometimes be confused by the untrained for a thrush. They tend to be heavier in winter and particularly at the start of their migration. They have olive-brown upperparts and white underparts heavily streaked with black; the flanks have an olive hue. A white ring surrounds the eyes, and a black stripe runs below the cheek. They have a line of orange feathers with olive-green tips running along the top of their head, bordered on each side with blackish-brown. The orange feathers can be erected to form a small crest. The eyes and the upper part of the thin pointed beak are dark, while the lower beak is horn-colored and the legs and feet are pinkish. Males and females look alike. Immature birds have tawny fringes to the tertiary remiges and sometimes buff-tipped outer primary wing coverts. Most conspicuously, the olive-green tips of the crown feathers, which are hardly visible in adult birds, are far larger in extent in immatures and cover the orange crown-stripe almost or completely.
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Alain Robert
Thursday 01 Jun 2023 - 2:00pm
Canada
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Raymond Bedard
Monday 29 May 2023 - 11:03am
United States
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Raymond Bedard
Monday 29 May 2023 - 8:55am
United States
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Samantha Knapp
Sunday 28 May 2023 - 2:30pm
United States
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